My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 52, for February 21, 2024. “²Reality is never frightening.”
Today’s review covers these ideas:
1. (6) I am upset because I see what is not there.
* I have to admit that this concept feels very tricky ONCE one has accepted the Atonement and is Guided by the Holy Spirit. At least it has been for me in interacting with other people who have not yet left the mental paradigm of the idea of the possibility of separation from God and all of its consequences.
* The idea that the confusion is not real and all appearances of trauma are mirages I can grasp but how to move into “being” in the realm of Heaven while existing with these silly false poop piles of confused thought is challenging! Lol, laughter helps and so does remembering that forgiveness is my first function and the only form of God’s Love that is acceptable or even available in the “space” of the “false paradigm.”
²Reality is never frightening.
* Right.
³It is impossible that it could upset me.
* Because it is God’s Presence completely.
⁴Reality brings only perfect peace.
* Yes, and it resides within me.
⁵When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up.
* Or you are allowing someone else’s illusions to appear to be something that YOU have to deal with. Hmm. Let the Holy Spirit go forward and extend God’s Love to everyone and everything. You know that God’s Love is the ONLY thing that is real. TRUST IT and not your natural eyes, ears, imaginings, OR the attacks, or positive mis-creations of others that have no validity because they are made WITHOUT God.
⁶The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality, and thus regard reality as an illusion.
* Remember the reality you found in the Atonement and cling to it alone as TRUTH and AS EXISTENCE because there is where you will find Heaven with God, The Father and the Whole Sonship that is Christ.
⁷Nothing in God’s creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine.
* And NOTHING in God’s creation is affected in any way by the confusion of ANY OTHER PART of the Body of Christ.
⁸I am always upset by nothing.
2. (7) I see only the past.
* My natural eyes currently see only the results of the confusing meanderings and justifications of fear and guilt that embody the past. My ears hear this same thing, as well.
²As I look about, I condemn the world I look upon.
* Once I am in the Atonement, I can know that I have given up this condemnation and see the Innocence of Christ, The Son of God.
³I call this seeing.
* From the Atonement, I no longer need to rely on my natural eyes and ears and can have FAITH in the Vision that the Holy Spirit provides that tells me that The Son of God can ONLY be as God created Him.
⁴I hold the past against everyone and everything, making them my enemies.
* I have NO enemies in the Atonement.
* Will I have an enemy in my partner if he has not yet received the Atonement for himself? Not in reality. He may feel threatened by me or afraid that I will walk away, because he knows that I have something that he wants and needs to be a part of. Like Daniel in the Lion’s Den, I can face that situation with calm and steady breath because I know that FORM does not dictate WHO I AM or what is REAL in any way.
* What about when I feel “safe,” and he misinterprets something and appears to turn on me?
* I will get stronger as “time” goes on. I will gain more confidence in my walk with the Holy Spirit WITH my brother/lover/and so on, because the Holy Spirit will show me that I am safe in my Heavenly Father’s Care regardless of what appears in my witness of the confusion brought on by separation that still seems to remain in teeny tiny pockets of the Mind of Christ.
⁵When I have forgiven myself and remembered Who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see.
* People cannot help but be influenced by what I understand.
⁶There will be no past, and therefore no enemies.
* Amen, and so it is.
⁷And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before.
* What I failed to see was the Innocence and Perfection of the Son of God IN His Father’s Presence, I.E. Heaven.
3. (
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
* Those who are walking with the Holy Spirit having forgiven the Whole of Creation for ANY belief in the possibility of separation from God use these lessons to vacuum out the residue of stagnant thoughts and patterns that you accumulated when you THOUGHT you walked in the belief in separation from God.
²I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past.
* I need this reminder even once I have accepted the Atonement while ANY part of the Mind of Christ still believes itself trapped by the belief in separation from God which is often manifested by belief in evil within oneself and/or others.
³What, then, can I see as it is? ⁴Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. ⁵Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. ⁶Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.
* Each of these statements reminds me that IN GOD ALONE IS EXISTENCE, PEACE, HAPPINESS, FREEDOM, and ABUNDANCE.
4. (9) I see nothing as it is now.
²If I see nothing as it is now, it can truly be said that I see nothing.
³I can see only what is now.
* This NEXT statement is important to understand.
⁴The choice is not whether to see the past or the present; the choice is merely whether to see or not.
* Without acknowledging God’s Existence I do not understand what anyone would lean on through this transition time. He IS important. HE IS REAL. He IS worth it. As ARE YOU.
⁵What I have chosen to see has cost me vision. ⁶Now I would choose again, that I may see.
* Vision needs to be capitalized because it is a gift from God through the Holy Spirit, actually giving you the embryo of the Sight of God, Himself which YOU MUST BE since ONLY God IS.
5. (10) My thoughts do not mean anything.
²I have no private thoughts.
* I love, love, love this!
³Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware.
* This is something that the Holy Spirit reveals to us individual and removes from our vision of Reality as well.
⁴What can these thoughts mean? ⁵They do not exist, and so they mean nothing.
⁶Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator.
⁷Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless “private” thoughts?
* I want the meaning of that statement to “grow” within me. It is, at least partly, a matter of thinking in terms of One Whole. Yet I feel that God allows us the enjoyment of our senses here in the physical world and would not extract them but enhance them if we would see Him IN THEM.
* It is a beautiful, wild, and crazy journey! Enjoy!!!
(ACIM, W-52.1:1–5:7)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
